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Hi Richard,<br>
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nice to have you here. Btw. Kwartzlab has Tuesday evenings always
"Open Nights" which means anybody can come, there is no fee.<br>
<br>
- Ralph<br>
<br>
On 11/17/2010 04:39 PM, Richard Bettridge wrote:
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Arial; color: navy;">Thanks, Jon already directed me
there. I
wanted to sign up right away until I saw the
membership fee. Not the right
timing for me, but I’m sure I could learn so much
off those guys. And I do need
access to proper tools. Seems like a very cool
group.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><font face="Tahoma"
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;
color: windowtext;"> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org">kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org">mailto:kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org</a>] <b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">On
Behalf Of </span></b>Chris Bruner<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b>
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
3:44 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b>
KWLUG discussion<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b>
Re: [kwlug-disc] Hello
World</span></font><font color="black"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"
color="black" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hi
Richard,<br>
You sound like an interesting guy. Your DIY stuff
prompted me to write,
and point you towards another kw group that you may
be interested in. They have
Tuesday Open nights were anyone can come and check
them out. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.kwartzlab.ca/">http://www.kwartzlab.ca/</a>
To see a bit of
the lab check this out. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kwartzlab">http://www.ustream.tv/channel/kwartzlab</a><br>
<br>
<br>
On 11/17/2010 3:01 PM, Richard Bettridge wrote: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;">I recently signed up for this
mailing list
and wanted to introduce myself.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;">My name’s Richard Bettridge,
I’m a 26
years old. I’ve been using Linux since around ’97
though I probably only
started to really ‘get it’ around 2001. I’ve been
using Linux in a professional
capacity for about that past 7 years. I currently do
performance based
testing/tuning on infrastructure software.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;">I had attended LinuxCon for my
first time
this year back in August. I must say for the low
price it was highly
entertaining. I’d recommend it. I’ll be going next
year. I found out
about the KWLUG by accident while looking for an <st1:state
u2:st="on"><st1:place u2:st="on"><st1:state
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ontario</st1:place></st1:state></st1:place></st1:state>
based Linux Conference, to which I found Ontario GNU
Linux Fest. It wasn’t
happening this year but some good came of it is it
lead me to stumble upon this
local group. Kind of wish I had thought to look
sooner.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;">My preference has always been
Debian and
derived distributions. Though I primarily work with
Redhat and Suse products at
work. So I’m looking forward to the upcoming meeting
in which Debian seems to
be the topic.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;">My interests are primarily
media/appliance
type applications such as my mediapc’s with XBMC,
open/ddwrt, and my recent
purchase of a CarPC. I’m a long-time fan of XBMC,
been using it since near its
inception.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;">I spend most of my time writing
scripts to
automate things on my network. Also I’ve always been
a big fan of PHP and like
to write web-based methods for accessing various
services from my home network.
<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;">Recently I’ve started to learn
python.
I’ve hacked other’s python scripts in the past but
now I’ve had reason to
actually get fluent with the language. I must say it
is not what I’m used to at
all. I’m more of a perl/bash kind of guy. So if
anyone’s a py-pro…<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;">I also have been very
interested in
getting my non-savvy friends accustom to using
Ubuntu with no complaints or
want to head back to Windows (I’d rather help them
with a real problem that is
worth solving than help them remove malware). So far
so good. Just leave them
with an ultimatum, try Linux or find another
computer guy you can pay in beer.
It’s really no different than the learning curve if
they switched to a Mac, I
tell them.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;">I’d like to think I know a good
amount of
low-level knowledge on email and http transactions.
It has been my primary
career focus for the past 5 years. So if anyone is
interested in that sort of
stuff I’m sure we can leverage each other.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;">I’m often doing DIY electronic
projects,
though I know very little about electronic
components. I can always use advice
in that area.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;"><u1:p> </u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family:
Arial; color: navy;">I look forward to meeting all
of you in
December’s meeting. I would have attended November’s
Social Night but I thought
it would be better to get a first impression of one
of the structured meetings.<u1:p></u1:p></span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" color="navy"
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Software Testing Specialist<br>
BIS-E SV&V Performance<br>
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